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Release Date:

April 27, 2009

Date Published:

April 27, 2009

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In the aftermath of his wife Rema's disappearance, Dr. Leo Liebenstein is baffled by the apparent substitution of a woman who looks, talks, and behaves exactly like Rema, a situation that prompts the doctor's quixotic journey in search of his real wife. Reprint.

In this labyrinthine and paranoid debut novel, a psychiatrist falls victim to Capgras syndrome and believes his beloved wife has been replaced by a doppelganger. Meanwhile, one of his clients goes missing after becoming convinced that he is receiving coded messages from Page Six in the New York Post. Selected by the New York Times Book Review as a Notable Book of 2008.